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June 7 – 23, 2014
HALSEY MCKAY is pleased to present Recursions, Adam Marnie’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This new series culls from earlier works in which Marnie had been mounting inkjet photographs onto sections of drywall that were then framed behind glass, or directly onto the wall and subsequently destroyed.
Continuing his engagement with site-specific installation and architectural intervention, the exhibition is composed with red inkjet prints hand-mounted onto sheets of drywall that are specifically altered. Marnie quadrisects the gallery itself evenly with four works, one hung on each wall, each manipulated by a sequential removal process. The sequence moves through the works: 1 removal, 2 removals, 3 removals, 6 removals. The same system of cuts is used to make the removals in each work thus; imbedded visual relationships emerge—of the four works to each other, between the wall and the works. His systematic approach does not leave out the inherently subjective use of the hand. Mixing with the cool and flawed architecture of the room, the individual works, in situ, transform the space into an optical play where negative space vibrates positive.
Adam Marnie was born in Minneapolis in 1977. He has exhibited his work in numerous New York galleries such as Andrea Rosen, Know More Games, Higher Pictures, Untitled, and James Fuentes; and across the US: David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis; Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Last Magazine, and Night Papers. Upcoming projects include a fall 2014 solo exhibition at 55 Gansevoort, New York; an artist book with Totem Press; and later this month, the inaugural release of F, a biannual magazine of which he is publisher and editor-in-chief. Marnie is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, New York.